Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

Impatience never commanded success.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.